In December this year, Pakistan's Senate passed two women's rights bills aimed at providing punishments for specific crimes against women and violations of their rights, as well as the law of the Prevention of Anti-Women Practices Bill 2008 establishes jail terms and financial punishments for those found guilty of certain anti-women cultural practices such as depriving them of their inheritance, forcing them into marriage... Proponents of these bills have faced years of struggle and significant resistance from Pakistan's backward political establishment in the path of calling for the realisation of these basic women's rights.
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